We had a two guests attending the SADXA
meeting. Welcome to NG7A - George, from New Hampshire and a
transplant to Rillito, AZ and on to Dove Mountain in Marana. Next
was WB7BFW - Scott from the .
We hope you had a good time at the meeting
and will consider joining our group.

The 2nd meeting of 2015 was
opened by our President, W1KSZ - Richard ,
with a short discussion of our
contributions to DXpeditions followed by our DXploits round table
discussion.
Our VP, N7WS - Wes
worked
with 12 band slots, busy, busy.
KB7AZ - Carl
worked several including Gabon and Lebanon. W7EXG - Bill
continues to extol the virtues of his large DB-42 antenna and worked Bear
Island, for example.
W7TUS - Mike
reminded us of our stamp collecting Vets that really like those
QSL stamped envelopes. Mike had a large bag of envelopes donated by
KB7JAQ - Scott .
Thank you, Scotty!

W1KSZ - Richard worked Navasa on 160, but still
needs Cocos Islands .
When WO7V - Jim
pulled out his list of DXploits, it became apparant that we could not
mention them all on this venue. You'll have to ask him
yourself.
Our man KB7GAI - Wally
reminded us of the
160 Meter SSB contest coming up the 27 Feb - 1 March.
Yours truly
WD7F - John
told of greatly improved receive performance on his 75 Meter Loop by
changing it from a convinient triangle to a near square. Live and
learn!
W6XI - Jerry
shared some DX pile up tips, very interesting.

WA7NB
- Art
said that he worked K1N on 9 bands and captured his 340th.
Congratulations, Art!

Chuck - W6CS
reminded us of the Seychelles S79CO DXpedition and here a reference to the
very active February and subsequent scheduled activity:
It was announced by someone that
had worked K1N!
W0LTL - Mike
told of fighting noise with his mobile rig for months and tried everything
to fix it. As it turned out, he says, his splices at the battery
terminals were not up to his usual standards. Mike submitted his
self depreciating story to QST and should be published in the April
issue. Let's hope it's not an April Fools story!

With that, the meeting was adjourned for preparation
of the evening's presentation.

SADXA Presentation

A video of the K4M Midway
Atoll 2009 DXpedition was shown.
WA7NB - Art
attended the DXpedition and related his experiences, good and not so good,
before, during and after the event.

It was a nicely done video and
concentrated heavily on the environmental issues and actions that
have taken place to ensure that the wildlife is preserved on the
island.

A point of interest: The Midway Island Henderson Field
runway has been maintained as an emergency landing strip by the 60 or so
inhabitants of the atol who are mostly from other Asian countrys, even
though it is a U.S. possesion. For example, on June 16, 2011, a Delta 747
with 380 passengers made an emergency landing there and on July 11, 2014,
a United 777-200 landed there due to a smoke filled cockpit.

Well,
here we go again! Just how many of these meetings have you
missed? We'll look for you next month!

Last Meeting15 January 2015

N6RC -
Richard

We had a guest for the evening, N6RC -
Richard who has recently moved from California to Tucson in the vicinity
of Oracle and Ina. Richard is a very active DXer and has served as
President of the Northern California DX Club. Welcome to SADXA,
Richard. We hope you will consider joining our group.

Our newly elected President, W1KSZ - Richard
opened our meeting with the usual round-table introduction with members'
DXploits. W7TUC - Mike
said he nad a very good year with many new countries and band slots.

With his new DB-42 monster STEP-IR antenna in place, W7EXG - Bill
has been working stations off of the back side of the antenna thinking it
was fantastic and then switching the phase an discovering he was missing
out on another 20 dB of signal. I'm thinking Bill has been having
fun, even using a metal detector on a pole to check to see if the tuning
of the elements is functioning correctly.
WO7V - Jim
said he has worked new ones including Malta, Bolovia and Iran.
N7WS - Wes
worked quite a bit of 160 and snagged the Samoa DXpedition. He said he was only 12
QSOs away from agetting 28,000 points in the W1AW year long contest.
I wonder if Wes has any time for Annette with that kind of attention being
paid to radio.
The Henning Bros, Scott and Andrew
said they worked W1AWs and had quite a bit of 12 Meter
activity.
In the 160 Meter contest, W6XI - Jerry
worked 480 plus contacts, quite an accomplishment. Our President W1KSZ - Richard
CW-DX wise is standing with 353 countries with
339 current. He's been busy too.
KD6XH - Cliff
was busy also, attending TWO DXpeditions which will be the subject of this
evenings presentation.

With that, Richard called for a break for preparation for Cliff's
presentation.

SADXA Presentation

KD6XH - Cliff
entertained us with his presentation on the two DXpeditions he
participated in last year, as 5W0XH on Western Samoa, along with N7CQQ -
John
and then as W1AW/KH8
on American Samoa. Even today, some amenities we enjoy here and in
most of the world are missing on these islands such as
Samoa. Even electric power is not guaranteed and is expensive. They attempted to license a couple of potential hams on
American Samoa but were unsuccessful. So, it may be a while before
that island will be available for DXers. The only ham on the island
has passed, three years ago. They tried to use his antennas but
corrosion has taken its toll. Cliff said that the open air hut below was
where they offered as a place for them to stay. Right.

You
missed this one, didn't you? What? Were you afraid you'd be elected to
SADXA office? Chickens!